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Biofuels are not even vaguely a silver-coloured bullet : Comments

By Simon Upton, published 3/12/2007

The current rage for biofuels is a bandwagon travelling along a road funded by huge public subsidies.

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I think there is a danger in extrapolating N. hemisphere research on heavily subsidised Corn ethanol and ethanol derived from Sugar Cane in N. Queensland.
Which as far as I know is not subsidised and even the waste-bagess is used to fuel & run the sugar- mills.

In Queensland sugar cane can be turned into rum, sugar or fuel.

I would prefer to see Queensland Cane Framers get some of the massive subsidies given to oil multi-nationals.
(Howard gave $60 million to Chevron-Mobile last year)
Posted by michael2, Friday, 7 December 2007 10:08:27 PM
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